Contents
Preface
Prologue: The Rise of the Sigmas
Introduction
Chapter 1. “Some Measurements of the Temperature Variation in the Electrical Resistance of a Sample of Copper”
Chapter 2. “Do Falling Bodies Move South?”
Chapter 3. “The Isolation of an Ion, a Precision Measurement of Its Charge, and the Correction of Stokes’s Law”
Chapter 4. “Directed Quanta of Scattered X-rays”
Chapter 5. “A Determination of e/m for an Electron by a New Deflection Method”
Chapter 6. An Uncertain Interlude
Chapter 7. “Electron Polarization”
Chapter 8. “Mean Lifetime of V-Particles and Heavy Mesons”
Chapter 9. “Detection of the Free Antineutrino”
Chapter 10. “Measurement of the Ke2 + Branching Ratio”
Chapter 11. “Determination of Kl3 Form Factors from Measurements of Decay Correlations and Muon Polarizations”
Chapter 12. Bad Data: An Interlude
Chapter 13. “Measurement of the Antineutron-Proton Cross Section at Low Energy”
Chapter 14. “New Measurements of Properties of the Ω− Hyperon”
Chapter 15. The Coherent Scattering of Neutrinos
Chapter 16. “Search for Neutral Weakly Interacting Massive Particles in the Fermilab Tevatron Wideband Neutrino Beam” 184
Chapter 17. “Measurement of the B+ Total Cross Section and B+ Differential Cross Section dσ/dpT in p ¯p Collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV”
Chapter 18. “B Meson Decays to Charmless Meson Pairs Containing η or η’ Mesons”
Chapter 19. The Case of the Disappearing Sigmas
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index